Ancient Indian Education: An Inquiry into its Origin, Development, and Ideals c5.123

c5.123

As Rāma has become the national hero of India so his It was, then, almost entirely an ideal of domestic virtue and capability that was set before the Indian girl, and though it was certainly very narrow and circumscribed it was in many ways a great and noble one. And the high degree in which the Indian woman in the past has realized the ideal which her somewhat narrow education held before her, is a promise that when her educational horizon shall have become enlarged, she will achieve still greater excellence in wider and yet more noble ideals.